Day two of a three-day evidentiary hearing regarding Nevada’s plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd began Wednesday morning in federal court.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 inmates. Some of them have killed multiple people, including children. Others ended the lives of elderly victims. Some shot police officers or strangers, while others stabbed someone they knew.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 convicted killers, all men, most of whom have been awaiting execution for more than two decades.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide Monday morning in the far northeast valley.
A recent planning survey for a permanent memorial honoring the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting elicited hundreds of emotional responses.
Cold case detectives often rely on DNA evidence, and advancements in technology are giving decades-old samples new promise. Sometimes, though, a match isn’t enough.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a 20-year-old man shot and killed during a party at a northwest Las Vegas steakhouse on Monday night.
One person was killed and two were injured in a shooting at a business park in northeast Las Vegas on Thursday morning.
An FBI task force arrested the mother, Samantha Moreno Rodriguez, early Tuesday in Denver on suspicion of murder, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police announced that the body of a boy found May 28 near Mountain Springs has been identified as a 7-year-old reported missing from the San Jose area.
Within days, Nevada prison officials could finalize their execution protocol and disclose the lethal injection cocktail planned for the capital punishment of Zane Floyd.
The FBI offered a reward of up to $10,000 Thursday for any information leading to the identity of a young boy found dead last week in Mountain Springs.
On Sunday, police released a “digitally enhanced picture” of the boy. Police said due to the location of the body, the boy may have lived in Las Vegas, Pahrump, Baker, Calif., or other nearby cities.
A recently published report shows that a primary caregiver’s partner — typically a mother’s boyfriend — was identified as the suspect in more than half of child abuse and neglect cases in Clark County in fiscal 2016.
Willis Davis, who is accused of killing three teens in North Las Vegas in 1996, told the Review-Journal that he made a false confession to the killings while high on PCP.